The spider effect: Morphological and orienting classification of microglia in response to stimuli in vivo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Jonas, Rahul A ^a   Yuan, Ti Fei ^b   Liang, Yu Xiang ^b,c   Jonas, Jost B ^a   Tay, David K C ^b   Ellis Behnke, Rutledge G ^a,b,c,d  

^a MEDICAL FACULTY MANNHEIM HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; RAT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLFACTORY BULB; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84857406614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030763     Document Type: Article

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